Josh O'Kane has been a reporter with The Globe and Mail since 2011, and has covered the technology sector for much of the past five years. His coverage focuses on the relationships between tech companies and human beings, governments, economies, and each other. His latest book, Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, investigates the failed effort by Google sister company Sidewalk Labs to build a future-focused neighbourhood in Toronto, the many institutions that company won over, and the consequences of Big Tech’s push into the physical world. It was published in September 2022.
O’Kane won the 2019 Arthur F. Burns Award for transatlantic political and cultural reporting from Germany's Internationale Journalisten-Programme for his coverage of that country’s broad pushback against Big Tech. His reporting has also won numerous Best in Business Canada awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. He has written widely on music, entrepreneurship, and Atlantic Canadian culture; his first book, Nowhere with You, examined all three subjects, and was a Canadian bestseller. O’Kane has extensively reported from Berlin, Halifax, Fredericton and Saint John, and is based in Toronto.
It is now standing proudly at Dundas Square. Messages are being added every hour. By the end of this effort we expect the ribbons to be thick to the top!
Despite raging rain and 90 kph winds on Saturday, our team made it happen.
Thank you to Saturday volunteers: Anny-Sandra Hamel, Prince Kumar, Binoy and Brinda Luckoo, Mitra Goodarzi, James Statham, Sarah Safaei, Serge Serou and Jayson Phelps for braving the weather.
And thanks to the Sunday team, Jayson Phelps, Suzanne Seaquist, Anny-Sandra Hamel, TP Sheehan, Maud Masayiwa, Kelsey Horning and Joseph Tubbs.
WE NEED YOU!!
Sign up for a shift at the link below. We hope to have members there from Thursdays to Sundays. Bring a friend or family member. Or a potential Rotarian.
You can invite family, friends and neighbours to donate for their own dedicated ribbon(s) by following the link below. A Rotarian will transcribe the message, or the name of their loved one, and place the ribbon(s) on the tree on their behalf.
Our goal is to raise $15 000, and more! Please share!
The Rotary Tree of Remembrance Team
(Maud, Serge, Brinda, Anny-Sandra and President Jayson)
We have our two district exchange students joining us for our Christmas Lunch on December 16th and are looking for someone (or two people) to host them overnight on the 16th and 17th.
Tru Noergaard (she) is from Denmark hosted by the Rotary Club of Stirling.
Felix Stubbe (he) is from France hosted by the Rotary Club of Trenton.
The Hosts will need to have a Criminal Reference Check with a Vulnerable Sector Screening.
Holiday Hampers for Christmas
This is our Third Year! 2022 Season Holiday Hampers from the Daily Bread Food Bank.
We expect to pack 500 food packages for Progress Place and other support groups on Saturday December 10th.
Kudos to Don Bell for his organization work.
Thank you to those who held parties. Please post pictures at the link below.
We are still a little short of our donation goal of $10,000. Please help us reach the top!
All Ages
Sarah and Mitra
All Nations and Faiths
Our Teams at Work!
